picaros
- plural of picaro.
Example Sentences
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In 1947, upon Gertrude Stein’s suggestion, Paul settled in Tangier, a seedy port city where artists, pirates, picaros, philistines, homosexuals, lapsed aristocrats, real aristocrats, and paupers posing as kings had found refuge for centuries.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 13, 2014
The picaros of this dirty little town are as conceited as pigs.
From Romance by Conrad, Joseph
Then it must have proceeded from one of the picaros behind the rock.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
Philosophers threw their goods into the sea; picaros throw them in their stomachs.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Rudder, Robert S.
Philosophers abandoned their estates to contemplate natural and divine things, the movements of the heavens, with less distraction; picaros do it to sow all their wild oats.
From The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes; his fortunes and misfortunes as told by himself by Rudder, Robert S.
